__/ [ Tom Wiley ] on Saturday 04 November 2006 09:00 \__
> On Sat, 04 Nov 2006 11:46:26 +0000, William Poaster wrote:
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>> Personally, after using SuSE linux for such a long time, I'm now dumping
>> SuSE from my machines (I note from some mailing lists that others are
>> too). IMHO Novell will become a puppet of M$, however when M$ have got
>> what they want, Novell could well suffer the same fate of previous M$
>> "partners".
>>
>>
> Same here. We only have 3 SuSE servers, mainly because they ran a
> particular video process really well. But by the end of the week, they
> will be gone back to Debian.
>
> MS must have really turned the screws in the meetings. Either that or
> Novell has made another of their many massive corporate mistakes.
You ought to see the opensuse mailing lists at the moment. Every @suse.de and
@novell.com address (plenty of them) insists that all is fine (I wonder if
they crap their pants deeper inside). Meanwhile, quite a few people talk
about defection, arguing that Novell gave Microsoft the IP lawsuits credence
they crave. At the moment I just let them know of a more conservative
view... that they hurt Red Hat rather than their real rivals. I'm making no
moves yet. I'm hoping for a pleasant surprise, but Microsoft lawyers aren't
dumb. They entered this relationship only because there was something to be
gained. Ballmer's implicit threat (only yesterday) was enough to justify
this. It's too late to backpaddle and I think that the quicker the community
weakens Novell, the better. de Icaza is already happy-pappy over this
(surprise it is not) because his Mono/.Net 'stuff' gets a home. PJ could
smell something funny when he did an interview with Port25 a couple of weeks
ago. Soon enough ODF might be corrupted, among many other things. Unless, of
course, the community responds... I'd hold tight to the new menus, the XGL
bits, the OpenOffice macros...
As one guy on the mailing lists said, "I feel sorry for the people who work
on SUSE/at Novell" (paraquoted). If all goes as expected, I'm sure we'll all
be sympathetic. I can only imagine what the @suse.de guys are going through,
having just been sold to their greatest enemy---an enemy that would corrupt
governments, the law, and use lies to hurt its ambitious and superior
competitor.
Best wishes,
Roy
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